So although you’ll be able to buy the cheaper upgrade copy of Windows 7-instead of the expensive “full” version available to those with pre-XP copies of Windows-you will not be able to do an in-place upgrade of your operating system. Microsoft decided not to provide a direct upgrade path from Windows XP to Windows 7. The major hurdle in making the move to Windows 7 if you’re currently using Windows XP has nothing to do with hardware. No need for brand new, expensive hardware.Īdmittedly, to take advantage of all of Windows 7’s bells and whistles you’ll need a PC with a little more oomph-for example, high-resolution video playback requires more from your graphics card and another gigabyte of RAM-but we’re not talking heavyweight hardware. If those figures don’t mean much to you, here’s a real-world translation: Windows 7 will run on most of those skimpy netbooks and it will run on any halfway decent machine currently running Windows XP. Pudgy old Vista’s slender successor requires nothing more from your PC than a gigabyte of RAM, a processor running at 1GHz, 16 gigabytes of hard drive space and a video card with support for DirectX 9 and WDDM 1.0. Are you ready for Windows 7? It doesn’t take much to qualify.
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